Republican state Sen. Greg Brophy incorrectly asserted in a gubernatorial debate Tuesday that the state is violating the constitution by paying for abortions and “that needs to stop.”

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment does not provide funding for abortions, spokesman Mark Salley said.

Asked Wednesday for proof of his claim, Brophy backpedaled.

“We’ll check and verify that, and if not’s true, then we don’t have to do anything (to stop it),” the Wray farmer said.

Colorado voters in the 1980s banned using state money to pay for abortions. The state still must comply with federal law, which requires abortion coverage for Medicaid patients in instances of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at stake.

“What specifically are you referring to when you mention ‘taxpayer funding for abortions?’ ” Brophy was asked Tuesday.

Brophy replied that when Democrat Bill Ritter became governor in 2007, he “reversed” an action taken by former Republican Gov. Bill Owens “which denied public funding for abortion.”

“The Democrats are ignoring (the law) by not making Planned Parenthood — their abortion clinic — account for the monies that they get,” Brophy claimed during The Post debate. “We are therefore — and this has been proven — funding abortion with public funds. That needs to stop.”

Planned Parenthood receives money from the state health department for breast and cervical screenings — services that Brophy said he approves of.

When Owens took office in 1999, he warned Planned Parenthood that its contract for family-planning services might be in trouble unless it could prove the money didn’t indirectly subsidize abortions.

His health department director, Jane Norton, hired a private audit firm that concluded the organization was subsidizing abortions because the separate entity that performed the procedures was not paying fair market value on a facility rented to Planned Parenthood. As a result, Planned Parenthood was no longer eligible to bid for family-planning funds.

When Ritter took office, he lifted the restriction against Planned Parenthood, saying it was good public policy to attempt to reduce unintended pregnancies. But no additional funding was available, so the group did not apply, Alderman said.

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